Cambridge man charged with burglary

A Cambridge man faces a felony charge after he reportedly entered a room at a city business early Friday to confront his former girlfriend.

Police charged Joshua M. Selby, 27, with burglary, a felony of the second degree.

He was charged under section 2911.12A2 of the Ohio Revised Code, which states, in part, "No person, by force, stealth, or deception, shall ... trespass in an occupied structure or in a separately secured or separately occupied portion of an occupied structure that is a permanent or temporary habitation of any person when any person other than an accomplice of the offender is present or likely to be present, with purpose to commit in the habitation any criminal offense ..."

According to reports, officers were dispatched to the hotel at 4:30 a.m. to speak with the complainants, a woman and her boyfriend. They said they had stayed at the hotel for a week, and that Selby had harassed her via the business telephone throughout the previous day.

The couple claimed they were nearly asleep when they heard pounding on the door of their room and a subject outside the room claiming to be with the Cambridge Police Department. Opening the door, Selby entered the room and they began to argue.

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The woman told Selby she no longer wanted to be with him, and that she would not give him a "second chance" at a relationship, the report said.

Selby allegedly produced a pocket knife and threatened the couple, claiming "he could end this all, right here, right now," before cutting his hand. The woman helped him bandage the wound before he left the room.

Selby was taken into custody shortly after officers arrived at the scene, having telephoned a hotel employee and advising he was at a nearby restaurant, the report said. He remained in the Guernsey County jail Saturday evening.